Uld accomplish it, would never drink anything less than claret. These
persons are ambitious of being noticed by the family of Honourable Tom.
They are not hungry, but they take delight in a dinner in that quarter.
They also feel intensely gratified by having their wives and daughters
bowed to from the family carriage. A thousand considerations like these
blind them to the absence of merit and character on the part of the
candidate, and lay them open to that extrinsic influence which,
according to the meaning of the law, is bribery and corruption. As for
the man who takes his bribe, for the sake of convenience, in the direct,
portable, and exchangeable form of a sovereign, he lays it out in any
pleasure or distinction he, on his part, has a fancy for. If he is a
diss